Valleys Quotes

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psalm 23:4

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population toward the territoryits great increase, especially in the valley of the Mississippias well as the greatly increased facility of passing to the territory by more accessible routes, and the far stronger and rapidly-swelling tide of population that has recently commenced flowing into it.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps.

You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you're at the top that long, you forget what it's like in the valley. There are 5+ billion people out there now who are willing to study harder, work harder for less money and be more industrious than we are. And we're linked to them by technology. With telecommunications, you can have your bookkeeping done in Madra, India, for less than it costs here. Today technology can replace whole new industries, so you have to stay flexible. To survive today, you have to be able to walk on quicksand and dance with electrons.

Silicon Valley is like a person running around in front of a steamroller.

You can outrun the steamroller on any given day. But if you ever sit down you get squashed.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me.

Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

No people require maxims so much as the American.

The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

Deciphering the [Indus Valley] script is not just an intellectual puzzle;

it's become a question that's become deeply intertwined with the politics and the cultural history of South Asia.

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

Free is really the gift of Silicon Valley to the world.

It's an economic force. It's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity. Free is the most interesting thing.

Being a shy, little, skinny Asian kid growing up in the Silicon Valley with low self-esteem, [dancers like Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Michael Jackson] made me believe in something bigger.

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world.

It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland.

And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country.

The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days.

Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.

B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley.

We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up.

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley.

We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.